Medical Imaging Device

2. The medical imaging device according to claim 1, wherein the control module is configured to determine the sample locations at which the optical imaging module acquires the samples in the first sequence based on a function which defines one of a spiral, an ellipse, an elliptical spiral, a Lissajous figure, and a hypotrochoid in a plane.

3. The medical imaging device according to claim 1, wherein the registration module is configured to register the image against the reference image by calculating a Weighted Normalized Cross-correlation between the image and the reference image.

4. The medical imaging device according to claim 1, wherein the registration module is configured to register the image against the reference image by calculating a Weighted Normalized Cross-correlation between the image and the reference image, and wherein the updating module is configured to generate the updated reference image provided that a maximum of the calculated Weighted Normalized Cross-correlation between the image and the reference image exceeds a threshold.

5. The medical imaging device according to claim 4, wherein the threshold is a first threshold, and the registration module is configured to register the image against the reference image by determining a translational difference between the image and the reference image, and wherein the updating module is configured to generate the updated reference image provided that the maximum of the calculated Weighted Normalized Cross-correlation between the image and the reference image exceeds the first threshold, and the translational determined difference exceeds a second threshold.

7. The medical imaging device according to claim 6, wherein the control module is configured to control the optical imaging module to generate image data defining a plurality of images of different respective regions of the body part that are offset relative to one another by acquiring a plurality of sequences of the samples, wherein the pixels to which the samples of the acquired sequences of samples are mapped have pixel locations that follow a same path in each of the images.

8. The medical imaging device according to claim 6, wherein the control module is configured to control the optical imaging module to generate image data defining a plurality of images of the region of the body part by acquiring a plurality of sequences of the samples, wherein the pixels to which the samples of the acquired sequences of samples are mapped have pixel locations that follow a different path in each of the images.

10. The medical imaging device according to claim 9, wherein, in each of the iterations, the control module is configured to select, as the respective imaging template, an imaging template from the plurality of candidate imaging templates whose calculated degree of correlation with the record is between a highest of the calculated degrees of correlation and a lowest of the calculated degrees of correlation, and preferably a median of the calculated degrees of correlation.

11. The medical imaging device according to claim 1, wherein the medical imaging device is a retinal scanner for scanning a region of a retina of an eye, and wherein the optical imaging module is operable to generate image data defining an image of the region of the retina by acquiring samples whose values are indicative of the optical property of the retina at respective scan locations in the region.

12. The medical imaging device according to claim 11, wherein the retinal scanner comprises one of a scanning laser ophthalmoscope, SLO, an optical coherence tomography, OCT, scanner and a combined SLO-OCT scanner.